[Buildroot] [buildroot 0002914]: X11R7 fails to build with a fork bomb.
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http://busybox.net/bugs/view.php?id=2914
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Reported By: KHAksnes
Assigned To: buildroot
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Project: buildroot
Issue ID: 2914
Category: Architecture Specific
Reproducibility: always
Severity: major
Priority: normal
Status: assigned
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Date Submitted: 04-14-2008 04:35 PDT
Last Modified: 05-26-2008 04:54 PDT
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Summary: X11R7 fails to build with a fork bomb.
Description:
X11R7 fails to build in a nasty way.
The package check is missing (As far as I understand this is
check.sourceforge.net) When ./configure in libxcb-1.1 tries to test for
this it starts a fork bomb making my development machine (a fedora 8
laptop) grind to a halt.
I am using a current buildroot. (svn at 21732)
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KHAksnes - 04-14-08 07:22
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Building of RPM shows the same behaviour. The fork bomb involves
pkg-config, glib-config and sed at least.
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KHAksnes - 04-14-08 07:31
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I forgot to mention that I was trying to build for i686 using, a fairly
standard setup with, kernel: 2.6.24, uclibc: 0.9.29, binutils:
2.18.50.0.1, gcc: 4.2.3, busybox: 1.10.
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KHAksnes - 05-26-08 04:54
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After meeting similar fork bombs several times I did som further research.
The problem seems to be pkg-config.
pkg-config have a builtin fallback to gnome-config. Sometimes when
pkg-config can't find its gnome-config fallback it forks out of control.
Installing the following shell script as staging_dir/usr/bin/gnome-config
fixes the problem
#! /bin/sh
exit 1
Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
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04-14-08 04:35 KHAksnes New Issue
04-14-08 04:35 KHAksnes Status new => assigned
04-14-08 04:35 KHAksnes Assigned To => buildroot
04-14-08 07:22 KHAksnes Note Added: 0006614
04-14-08 07:31 KHAksnes Note Added: 0006624
05-26-08 04:54 KHAksnes Note Added: 0007864
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